Week #49, 2024

Week #49, 2024

Every person, every thing, every idea in our lives weighs on us in measure to how dear we hold it.  Some are worth carrying forever, some only for a while, and some were never worth carrying.

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Week #48, 2024

Week #48, 2024

Week 48 of 2024 has arrived. The holiday planning and decorations are in full swing.  Enjoy it.  It's the most human thing in the world to celebrate the endings and beginnings of things. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square.  Done? I have been writing this weekly newsletter for 2 years and 2 weeks. 106 weekly newsletters. Does that seem like a lot?  I have been recording the podcast for a year and 2 weeks.  54 podcasts. Does that seem like a lot? It doesn't seem like it has been that long, and also it seems like I have always been writing it each week. I think that is when a good habit...

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Week 34, 2024

Week 34, 2024

Life is Struggle, Struggle is Life, would that make even the messiest struggle more noble?

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Week 27, 2024

Week 27, 2024

Thinking of time as a cycle rather than a unidirectional line has made the background anxiety around current crises easier to bear.

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Week 3, 2024

Week 3, 2024

Focus on becoming the person you need to be to accomplish the goals that you need to accomplish, to achieve the dreams that you have for yourself. Think of yourself as the author, not the character...

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Week 51, 2023

Week 51, 2023

If you are considering a change for the better, you need to acknowledge the you that you have to let go of. It's ok to be sad and to grieve that version of yourself... but the price of every new and better version of you is leaving the old version behind.

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Week 49, 2023

Week 49, 2023

We are all recovering. Relapse is part of recovery. In everything that you want to improve, on every personal hill that you are climbing, you will eventually backslide. Hopefully you don't tumble all the way down the hill. Hopefully you slide to a stop and immediately refocus on the summit that inspired you in the first place. 

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Week 45, 2023

Week 45, 2023

Having a failure is fine, maybe even essential. I think we are all who we are because of how we handled adversity more than how we handle success. You don't have to own anything outside of your control. All you can control is how you take the next step through the world. 

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Week 29, 2023

Week 29, 2023

There is no telling who any of us will become. You do not need to be defined by all the failures and successes that have come before this moment in your timeline...

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